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crowberries, perhaps? Since we're in the berry part of the list ...

RESPECTABLE AA STUDIO is hiring 25 different LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR C-SUITE DEVELOPERS for EXCITING NEW GAME THAT’S BEEN GETTING LOTS OF BUZZ Requirements: -At least two PhDs in game development -Shipped at least 25 AAA titles as a lead developer -400 years of experience with Unreal Engine -Expert in C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Swift, Rust, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, R, QBASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, punch cards, and operating Babbage’s difference engine -No, we are not fishing for one specific person who coincidentally just left their job at another studio. Why would you think that?

THAT FAMOUS GAME STUDIO is hiring a developer for THAT BELOVED GAME FRANCHISE THAT WAS FORMATIVE TO YOU BECOMING A DEV! Benefits: -$150,000/year plus insurance, dental, a retirement plan, and a puppy -Hang with those famous game devs you saw at that GDC talk -We have a ball pit! Requirements: -A positive attitude 😊 -Passionate about our game! -Willing to learn -Some basic game dev experience a plus but not required -Onsite only on Pitcairn Island

A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO DOWNLOADED UNITY YESTERDAY is hiring a developer for I DECIDED TO TURN MY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN INTO A GAME -so im making this game and i have this rly rly good idea but i never made a game b4 so i need u to do all the engine stuff and the programming and fix the mechanics and do the sound and lighting and shaders and backgrounds, i drew my characters on the back of homework but can u turn them into pixel art for me, i cant pay u but we can do rev share and when this game is a big hit youll make millions of dollars

The three types of game dev job listings

If this is the law, the law is wrong.

Cosy general sci-fi 📚🪐

The Sol Majestic - Ferrett Steinmetz - coming-of-age in a restaurant
A Slice of Mars by Guerric Haché - setting up a pizzeria
The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz - robot x mechanic gentle ace romance
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon - starts cosy, gets plottier later

Greenteeth looks like fun, even though it's the most work to get to, being at the bottom of the stack :)

In fact I've WORKED WITH a couple of people younger than my oldest recording there (2005.)

Recommended a LibriVox listen that I helped with back in the day, and am just now freaking out mildly, on realising I have friends on Discord who are YOUNGER than that recording.

Why is 2007 so long ago? Totally unreasonable passage of time?!

Disclaimer, I coordinated the first version.

Had completely forgotten about that, but it was over 17 years ago. (How is it that long?!)

There are some lovely free versions at LibriVox -- solo narrator librivox.org/little-women... or a dramatic reading (still the unabridged text though): librivox.org/little-women.... There's also a collaborative version, a single narrator per chapter, but not all listeners are into that.

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

Cannot think of a better thing to be doing next Sunday evening!

Oh what a lovely idea -- sent something, hope it brightens up their crappy morning just a little. And someone else's quite a bit once the tag goes out.

Perhaps Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord or for an olde classic, Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees.

Coveting this so much.

[Alt text: a wall-hanging rug of mainly reds, golds, blues in a traditional Azerbaijan pattern which continues across the floor with the colours flowing from halfway down as if dripping and swirling together like wet paint.]

Cover of The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard. Artwork. Against a starry sky, with the title in large cream lettering, a crow stands in a (presumably tiny) golden canoe. The reflection of the canoe in the water has the author's name superimposed in the same lettering (though smaller.) The bird is staring off to the right with an expression that could be grim, determined, or just unsure about the canoe's integrity since it's a rather wonky banana shape.

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Day 11

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

Maybe:
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (historical, can stand alone and part of series, spice)

Spicefrees:
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (YA contemp sci-fi)
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz (cosy sci-fi)
Dead Lez Walking by G Benson (Aussie zombie horror)

That's good to know ... no hurry with the eleventy billion things you're likely also doing. I'll watch out for when it's updatedly available!

(Finished the other day and already thinking about going on with the rest of the series ... though my TBR in general needs some management first.)

Cover of Wistful Ascending by JCM Berne The book's hero, a man of South Indian descent, wearing a yellow jumpsuit with purple highlights, floats with fists raised as if prepared for a fight in front of a cover-spanning porthole. Outside, we can see into space, where a large ship floats above a glowing orange planet.

I happily recommend SFF 'Wistful Ascending' by @jcmberne.bsky.social -- war-weary superhero attempts to retire, towing ships for a sentient space station, but plot happens. Great world-building and characters. No cliffhanger, tho 1st in series.

Also, part of www.jamesldulin.com/blackfridays... 🪐📚

Cover of Slippery Creatures, by K.J. Charles Heading The Will Darling Adventures 1. Against a crimson arch with gold patterning, two white men are drawn side profile, looking at each other. On the left, black haired and with impressive but neat sideburns, one is standing in a smart black suit, holding an open book. The other on the right is sitting, wearing a gold suit, and with a knife held in the hand facing the reader, a little tucked under his jacket. Author name is in 'cut out' vintage font, and title is below at the bottom, font has art deco vibes.

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Day 10

Brits don't do Thanksgiving because if we had to take a day off for the anniversary of us fucking over a native people and ruining their country we'd never have to go to work.

Cover for Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea, by Sarah Pinsker. Abstract painting, with a tight red spiral across the cover at the top, water-stain like blue blotches and drips of light blue paint lower down. More interesting than I'm making it sound, sorry. It might vaguely remind you of a vivid red sunset over the sea. Or not.

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Day 9

A few to consider:

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper (multiple POVs but FMC main)
Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (can stand alone)
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

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Cover of - The Hungry Cloud by Tom Ingram Extremely orange overall ... a boat finely-drawn in brown ink sails towards us, with two children on board. They are looking away from us, towards a very tall-turreted castle rising from the lake a distance away. Haloing the castle is a black circular cloud with ornate black-pen spirals in a border around it. The author's name is in white top right, and the title is in black below it. The font is in a groovy Seventies style, since this was first pub in 1971. Alternate title in the US: Garranane.

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Day 8

Book cover: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. It's the classic orange Penguin edition, a wide stripe of bright orange at the top with Penguin Books in black on a black-edged cream blob. Below is a cream band, with the title and author in black. And the remaining part below that is orange again with a stylised penguin logo eyeing you and judging your reading taste.

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Day 7

Tesco are completely out of tissues yet again